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The TryNix page in a browser tab, with the hello package entered and an embedded terminal showing a nix-shell prompt.

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TryNix runs any Nix package in a browser tab

TryNix boots a Linux kernel compiled to WebAssembly and runs any of 310,083 nixpkgs versions in a tab. Python 3 takes 7.5 seconds on a first visit.

Sep 6, 2026

A terminal running benchcmp to compare a scalar Go benchmark against a vectorised one, with the delta column showing the speed-up.

Coding

Debian Code Search drops its last cgo dependency

Michael Stapelberg replaced a 7-year-old C library with pure Go using the experimental SIMD package, and matched the C version's speed.

Sep 6, 2026

A terminal running strip on a compiled binary, with the file listing showing it shrink from 5.2M to 1.8M and the ELF header change from not stripped to stripped.

Coding

A tampered strip binary can backdoor all of NixOS

Researchers built Ken Thompson's trusting-trust attack out of GNU strip, not a compiler, and used it to backdoor almost every binary in a NixOS installer.

Sep 6, 2026

A Linux desktop on Apple hardware, with a terminal showing lscpu reporting an aarch64 architecture and an Apple M3 model name.

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Asahi Linux now officially supports M3 series Macs

Asahi Linux has merged M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max support into its installer. Wi-Fi, USB 3 and AV1 decoding work. Sleep, HDMI and fast 3D do not.

Sep 6, 2026

A process listing on a Kubernetes v1.37 node, showing containerd, kubelet and kube-proxy owned by the kube user while the systemd services still run as root.

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Kubernetes 1.37 promotes rootless mode to beta

Kubernetes 1.37 moves KubeletInUserNamespace to beta. The kubelet, container runtimes, CNI plugins and kube-proxy can now all run as a non-root user.

Sep 5, 2026

A terminal running Babashka 1.13.220, where an ffi-demo.clj script loads zlib through the new foreign function interface and prints version 1.3.1.

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Babashka 1.13.220 adds FFI for calling native libraries

Babashka 1.13.220 adds an FFI built on Java's Panama API, so a Clojure script can call a native library without writing a pod or any Java.

Sep 5, 2026

The GNOME Discourse thread titled Proposal for an RFC process, opened by sophie-h.

Coding

GNOME drafts an RFC process for big technical decisions

A 14-day comment period, named stakeholders and a merge request: GNOME has drafted a formal way to settle the decisions it now makes in chat.

Sep 5, 2026

Audacity 4.0's redesigned interface, showing an audio waveform loaded in a clip on the timeline.

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Audacity 4.0 rewrites the editor in Qt, drops scripting for now

Audacity 4.0 ships a full Qt rewrite with a new clip-editing model and project format. Eight features, including scripting and plugin hosting, are gone for now.

Sep 3, 2026

Rack-mounted industrial control computers in a server room, the kind used to run accelerator control systems.

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CERN migrates 2,200 industrial computers from RHEL to Debian 13

CERN is moving more than 2,200 industrial and embedded computers from RHEL to Debian 13, after a RHEL default compiler setting threatened to lock out older hardware.

Sep 3, 2026

The GitHub release page for Omarchy v4.0.1, showing its Fast-Follow Fixes notes above the list of security fixes.

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Omarchy 4.0.1 undoes AI agent defaults that skipped safety checks

Omarchy 4.0.1 shipped 11 security fixes on August 25, 2026. The largest one stops launching Claude Code and Codex with their approval prompts turned off.

Aug 30, 2026

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